Thursday, June 30, 2011

Day 19: Stuttgart, Germany

Our last full day in Europe! :( Tomorrow we leave Stuttgart early in the morning to catch our flight in Frankfurt to head back to Iceland. We have a small layover at Keflavik before flying to Minneapolis.

Today was kind of a fun day for the boys. We started the day off by going up into the television tower, here, in Stuttgart. It was sprinkling, windy, and a little chilly but the experience was pretty sweet!

From the tower, we went to the Porsche car factory and museum to take a look around. We ended up spending about two and a half hours in the museum! The boys loved it!! We were given self-guided tour headsets for the boys to use...but most just tried to find the sportiest looking car in the museum.

Afterwards we went to the plaza in town to eat lunch and hopefully find some souvenir shops. We were very unlucky--there weren't many stores that sold Deutschland souvenirs. We found a small shop that sold a few things the boys were looking for so we brought the boys in six at a time to look around. We then gave up on shopping and went back to the bus to get a rest period in before tonight's concert.

We arrived at the church around 4:30 (7:30 concert) and warmed up/rehearsed with the Knabenchor collegium iuvenum Stuttgart. The boys got a small bite to eat before the concert (more bratwurst) and began preparing for the concert. They sang one song outside the front door of the church to lure some more people into the church and then finished the remainder of the concert indoors. The boys sang beautifully and so did the Knabenchor collegium iuvenum! They were magnificent! We're all hoping that they can come visit us in Minnesota sometime soon!

The boys went home with their host homes after the concert. Most of the boys are sad tour comes to an end tomorrow, but they're still eager to get home. I can't tell you how many times I've heard "I want a cheeseburger!" in the past few days...haha Well they'll get one soon enough!! ;) See you all tomorrow!

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